Don’t know whether to laugh or cry
Can you defend your coursework or doctoral thesis in front of an officer again?
And all for a work permit!
Imagine: you apply for a work permit under a simplified program. You have collected the documents, attached your master's degree in business administration, you are confident... But the officer turns out to be more meticulous than your academic supervisor (I shake when I remember mine).
This is exactly what happened to a Chinese citizen who studied in Hong Kong. In her case, the officer came across a publication in a newspaper: the university where she received her degree allegedly had a thriving "shadow writers" - the same ones who write diplomas and coursework for money.
What did the officer do? He called her in for an interview. But not for formalities. He asked her to talk about her own research, methodology, key business concepts and even details of her master's thesis. To which she could not give a proper answer to this.
The officer's conclusion was simple: if you don't know what's in your own diploma, then the diploma was not obtained honestly. And here's the decision: misrepresentation (unreliability of information), a 5-year ban, and a closed door to Canada.
The moral of the story is simple. Sometimes officers go beyond a standard check of documents, and start asking questions, like at a real dissertation defence. Such cases are rare, but they show: Canadian immigration is not only about questionnaires and stamps. It is also a check of you personally, and sometimes you come across a very meticulous officer.....
And could you now, without cheating, tell us what your coursework or diploma work was about?
Oleksandra Melnykova, Canadian Immigration and Refugee Consultant.
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